“I’m not brave enough to be a pacifist.”
H/T John Regan
On a related note, Rick Horowitz writes (emphasis added):
You might pity us [criminal defense attorneys] because of our clients. “Oh, god!,” I hear more often than not. “How could you defend that person? How hard that must be!”
The truth is, though, that sometimes our clients are not guilty. Even those who have committed some crime have often not committed the crime of which they are accused. And even when they have — yes, please think about this! — even when they have, it was an accident. A one-off incident that will never recur again.
That’s not at all to say that it’s okay. It’s not to say that all should be forgiven. However much it might actually be as effective in preventing future crimes, I know of no one who will say, “Go, and sin no more.”
Well, okay. Maybe I’ve heard of One. But we know what happened to Him.
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